sendmail modifies sender address

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Nov 22 20:55:20 UTC 2007


geoff at hughes.net wrote:
> This problem is new to Fedora 8.  I'm running the (current) version, 
> sendmail-8.14.1-4.2.fc8. Everything else is up-to-date. Sendmail 
> configuration is unchanged from the disto.
> 
> My "From" address is being re-written by sendmail. geoff at mtranch.
> mtranch.com becomes geoff at mtranch.mtranch.comQW. Internally (/bin/mail, 
> balsa) this works fine, but my ISP (hughes.net) rejects it. 

Sounds like an error in your configuration file. Sendmail's always been 
able to rewrite addresses.

Probably near "QW" in sendmail.cf & sendmail.mc



Cheers
John

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